[A Congo word, used in Fr. by Guyot 1805.] The larva of the nematode worm Filaria oculi, infesting the human eye in tropical countries. Also attrib.
1889. Syd. Soc. Lex., Loa-worm.
1898. P. Manson, Trop. Diseases, xxxiii. 518. The man remembered that when a lad, he had a loa in his eye. Ibid., 519. The blood of another patient, known to be the subject of loa infection.
